i38 Southampton Level. 
694 feet. Coarse, flesh-coloured granite. This is the 
handsomest granite in the whole drift. Here we find the most 
beautiful specimens of graphic granite, both flesh-coloured and 
gray. 
680 feet. A stratum of Kirwan’s stell-stein. That is, an 
aggregate of fine-grained quartz. and mica, without any felspar. 
The quartz is mostly greenish, probably coloured by the nest 
stratum. 
670 feet. Beautiful green soapstone. Very compact, but 
rather softer than that kind in common use for inkstands. 
666 feet. Agreengranular aggregate. It seems to be made 
up of fine fragments of quartz, soapstone, and mica, rarely 3 
little felspar, slightly compacted together. 
Remark. All the strata, from the inner termination of the 
drift to this place, a distance of one hundred and thirty-four 
feet, are nearly vertical, or a very little inclined. Here they 
begin to approach a horizontal position. 
The green aggregate continues as far as the air-well, a dis- 
tance of 66 feet, with some trifling variations in the size 
proportion of the aggregated tragments. 
500 feet. A granulated schistose aggregate, chiefly a 
quartz and mica. Though the constituents and the form of 
the rock correspond very nearly with mica slate, it cannot be 
considered as the primitive mica slate rock. It is so slightly 
compacted that it can scarcely be kept from falling to piece 
Its position is nearly horizontal. 
480 feet. A stratum of coal, half an inch thick. This 
stratum may be traced, at different intervals, one hundred and 
eighty feet along the drift towards its mouth. It lies betwee? 
the strata of the last described schistose aggregate. - 
400 feet. An aggregate appears, alternating with the loose 
schistose rock, which resembles the red sandstone, but is of # 
Jess firm texture. 
From this place all the strata, east of the soapstone, 00% 
sionally appear, for the distance of about three hundred feet 
This is probably on account of their undulatory forms and 
horizontal position. Most of the way we find the lower part 
